Orrin Hatch Quotes

There's lots of law these days, but not much justice.

Really, no-one is bad except for serial killers and dictators.

I'm Dan Gelber. As a federal prosecutor, I helped put away corporate criminals, corrupt politicians and violent gangs.

There's good and evil going on. We have cops. We have robbers.

Much law, but little justice.

Much law, but no justice.

If we started prosecuting people for sin, we’d all be in jail.

The government is so brave that it dares to arrest, capture and punish Muslim leaders and activists. But officials do not have the courage to capture those engaged in corruption or the gambling mafia, who, destroy the country's moral structure

The experience of being a prosecutor gives us a sort of proctologists view of our society.

Enforcing the law is not an injustice.

Every punishment is based, not on logic or the feeling of justice, but on the desire to wish evil on those who have done evil to you or to another person…. Everything about our present system of punishments and about all criminal law will be thought of by future generations in the same way that we think of cannibalism or human sacrifice to the pagan gods. “How did they not see the uselessness and cruelty of those things which they did?” our descendants will say about us.

The net of law is spread so wide, No sinner from its sweep may hide. Its meshes are so fine and strong They take in every child of wrong. O wondrous web of mystery ! Big fish alone escape from thee !

Crime has always been a regrettably consistent element of the human experience.

The Law cuts into the core of the evil, it reveals the seat of the malady, and informs us that the leprosy lies deep within.

In terms of justice, the most important thing is not to be part of organized crime.

If there were no bad people, there would be no good lawyers.

I hadn't realized until I covered the police beat just how seedy crime is.

To confront criminals, we need to finish with corruption. If we don't do this, there is no hope.

The more laws, the less justice.

We haven't had crime writers, and for a long time in the Republic, we didn't seem to have a crime problem as such.

We must never lose sight of the fact that the law has a moral foundation, and we must never fail to ask ourselves not only what the law is, but what the law should be.

Successful crimes alone are justified.

Many countries struggle and never get to the point where people have faith that laws are executed fairly.

I was concerned about the link between crime and politics, and I figured out the only way I could do something about it was to get into politics.

Many laws as certainly make bad men, as bad men make many laws.